Earning money from your website

Earning money from your website can be quite tough but once you get the right method you will be able to earn revenue from the affiliate programs.

There are a few types of affiliate, one of the most popular is cost per click CPC and cost per one thousand impression CPM. Both the programs enable you to earn money from the clicks of advertisement on you website. Depending on the types of advertisement it sometimes cost more and sometimes less. The click will be recorded in terms of CPC and CPM which will the determine the amount that you are about to earn.

Programs such as Google Adsense and Forex Affiliate offer such affiliate for the user. There are tools where you can configure the types of affiliate that you want to use and choose what you want to display on the advertisement. But before you can use the affiliate you must agree with the terms and conditions applied and know some basic HTML editting skill. After you configured the setup then all you need to do is to place the advertisement at a desired position.

Besides you can also sell you products online by using EBAY. EBAY is one of the most widely used website for selling items. There are many catagories to choose from but you need to know what are the items that are prohibited to be sold. Paypal an EBAY company offers service for users who own a website and wanted to sell their products using their own website. Of course the Paypal would also need some very basic HTML skills in order to use it. Paypal also offer buying service which users can buy items from any website that uses paypal as a payment option.
By combining advertising and affiliate program you are able to earn more and attract more customers to your website.

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How to get your website online

Getting your website online is just as easy sending an email. But before you can do that you must sign up with a host either free or paid. Then you can choose to either submit your website through a FTP or upload to the hosting page. Free web hosting provider such as http://www.tripod.com offers FTP submitting service which is faster and easier and also uploading service. Whereas the CJB' does not offer FTP submitting but they only offer uploading service which users must upload their webpage one by one.

By using FTP service you can either use program such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage to submit the files automatically. There are some configurations that have to be made before you can submit you files, for example you must acquire the FTP address for your account and which location will the files be after the uploads.

By using the uploading service you have to submit the files one by one without loosing one. The service can be fast but it depends on how fast your connection is. The disadvantage of this service is that you cannot have the freedom to alter the pages. To do that you might have to reupload and overwrite the files which sometimes can lead to errors.

Some web hosting company does not offer folder for the users such as http://www.cjb.net which only allow user to use one location only. It needs organizations in order to make it function as well as the foldered ones. This kind of service ussualy does not allow users to use format such as ASP,PHP and so on. It only allows html with limited features.

After you got you website online you will have a URL but sometimes it can be too long to remember. The solution is you can see a free URL forwarding company in order to get a shorter and rememberable name. But if you are hosting on a paid server ussualy the address is short.

The next thing you can do after getting you website online is to registering a domain for your website with will put WWW onto your address. Getting a domain gives you more freedoms and more subdomains for your website. But you must pay for the domain which will cost you as low as $5 per year depending on the company.

Easier ways to build website

Building website these days is getting easier and easier. Starting from scratch you are able to build website like a pro. Just sign up any web hoster and you can build you website instantly. You can either pay to build one or build it for free.

If you are worry about the costly fees of hosting webpage, you can at anytime sign up to a free host of webpage such as http://geocities.yahoo.com/ , http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ , http://www.cjb.net/ , http://www.uni.cc/ , and so on. They provide almost ample tools for beginners and intermediate users. It is suitable for people who want a free website but able to enjoy features of a paid webpage. There is no free lunch in the world these webhosters have applied some terms that you have to agree in order to sign up and one of it is they are allowed to advertise on your website.

As mentioned building website these days is getting easier. Besides building tools provided by the host you can also build it using programs such as Microsoft Frontpage/Word/etc, Macromedia Dreamweaver/Flash/Firework/etc, and so on. These programs enable you to build a more sophisticated website such as asp and php format instead of html. It also allow you to build an intergrated website with some flash animation or video. It allows you to build a form for you website for the use of guest logs and forms submission.

If you want to become a pro of website building website, it is suggested that you take up class or courses such as javascripts and advance html,php,or asp course. Then building does not just depends on design but also the skill of writting the script.

The use of programs such as Macromedia Flash and other animation maker programs enchance and make your site more attractive. Using flash is not as easy as it seem, the ability to use actionscripts is crucial in order to make a good animation for your website. But for beginners there are some easy tool in Macromedia Flash that allow beginner to build a simple animation. Tweening and motion enable beginners to animate their contents.

Later you will learn how to promote your site and how to earn money from you website.

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